Aw, so you weren't looking for a job in NYC after all? I had forwarded a letter to our division VP about your viral media techniques (I work in google's NYC regional office) and he was "highly" interested. But, since its all a joke, i'll inform his secretary you were just kidding :(

Chronster your sarcasm is endearing, and that's why you're alright to me. Hell it doesn't matter, I was really convinced, and when you didn't say it yesterday, Max, I freaked a bit. I'm getting champagne. FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I totally burned money-hat when he tried saying he was going to delete all his sites that night. I was all up like, "you can't do that with the queue system" and he was all like, "Oh noes! You got me!"
A tale of epic victory to be sure.

All the KOOL 2005ers and 2004ers played along with the joke, I hate the ones who were like: "oh it's just a prank, la-di--da."GRRRRR. ----also--------------I said, he aint here, but he sure went past
Oh, youre looking for jimmy jazz

Question: You said that you would have trouble programming. But I also understand that you only hurt one finger. Since people who spend actual time typing typically type with all ten fingers, are you really slowed down that much?

i type like a gimp, so all of the symbols i need to hit when i code i use my index finger for. over the last month i've slowly been training my middle finger to do it though. so now i just type with reduced accuracy and speed.

but seriously, i hope your finger heals up. Since you can't code much right now, how about using this time to do a lot of smaller things around the site, like fixing the "You've made total votes with an average rating of 0"?

That option was actually intentionally crippled and never removed. It was neat statistic, but took too much server power to do on a constant basis. There is a lot of small stuff like that all over the site, and rather than fix them all on the live site I'm doing it in the refactoring so I don't have to manage two completely different code bases.

so wait... it's 3 in the morning or something? I usually miss the new reports going up because I'm in Australia. By the time I get to them people have already said: also, c*cks... 7'th!... make me a mod/featured user and the always fun BAN [USER X] THEY'RE A DOWNVOTER.
lololololololo

It's 3 in the morning... a telephone rings... somewhere, someone is clamoring to become a featured user... who do you want to answer the call? Someone with no experience or JOHN CARRY REPORTING FOR EAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR RAPEEEEEEE!

Actually if it had stayed 'down' for longer I could have made my OMG YTMND IS DEAD site... I was going to use McFly kneeling at the grave, saying 'No... it can't be... this has to be a dream' and then Darth Vader wearing red sunglasses would say 'Search your feelings you know it to be true' and then 'ALL RIGHT SUCK MY DICK!' I could still make it I guess but it would make even less sense, especially if I included the flying lobster with a mustachio.

I won't leave a comment that says "Oh... you had me.. darn you!" in a sarcastic way so thus i present a better comment: CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIZ

If max's target audience was people that already knew about april fools day pranks here, then max wouldn't waste his time. But when he targetted chronster and many others and fooled them, i think the rest of us that knew about the prank were fun to watch the others that didn't.

He could claim to have sold the site to an ebaum style aggregate... he could actually shut it down for a day... He could screw up the voting somehow... he could instill some kind of censorship system that was really strict... or he could ...
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really close the site down and see how long people think it was a prank

ytmnd is not dead. although after that convincing message posted tuesday i thought it really was going down and it was to be over. for now on, i declair that if u post a bad site that is REALLY bad then u should go off ur self. not really off ur self, that could get messy. just sack tap ur self a few times

Max tried hard to fool us, but I never bought it. I dunno, maybe it was the fact YTMND started in 2001 not 2004 (right...?, thats what the site says at the top...), or that "We've only just begun" was the music (dee dee dee people, seriously). Either way, haha, you gotz fooleded :P

More like best. Most of us were fooled to some degree (with good reason), and appreciated this place a little more as a result. Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'till it's gone?

yeah, I had one like that....
then again, I have another one that 96 ppl viewed, and no one voted :( [http://velvetclintonground.ytmnd.com/] guess it was kinda like an april fools joke, but no one got it

This is somewhat akin to when I was young, and my sister would pretend she was dead for so long that I would start to believe her. Then she would get up and chase me around with a butcher knife until she cornered me, and I cried. Nicely done, Max, I commend you.

You are diabolical, Max. While I didn't really buy it on Tuesday, I was starting to believe it yesterday because of all the things Creeppipe was saying on the site Fearcondom made. So the question is, were they in on it or was this part of the scheme to make everyone believe this is the end? To think of all the sites I could have downvoted yesterday, but didn't. Damn, now I have to finish my Van Halen site now that I teased it enough.

max, I'm thinkin YTMND could definitely do with some extra advertising elsewhere, in order to bring in more traffic, just like it got with Attack of the Show and everything similar. I'd recommend following kepledon's idea of trying to appear on the Colbert Report. I was a bit skeptical of the idea at first, but now that I remember Colbert already played a YTMND (the iPod Colbert one) on his show, it should be a lot easier to do it.

Give it some thought, or you can come up with a different way to advertise the site. For example, through a different celebrity. Did you know that when you search Google for "Sean Connery" YTMND doesn't appear until page 3?

the body parts idea is good... start with the nerve damaged finger then go for the left hand since you only need your right to get off. i think we should help max to get onto colbert by making a ton of colbert ytmnds. i mean... it's no worse than any other fad thats gunna be started this next week.